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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:46:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Gerald Abshez <gerald@manhattanprojects.com>, "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
Subject:   Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image
Message-ID:  <200002162346.SAA22380@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200002162217.OAA00599@mass.cdrom.com>

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On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote:
>> This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be
>> able to track down.  It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do 
>> int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that 
>> for loading the kernel and drivers.
> 
> The problem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy 
> image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly 
> know how to deal with it cleanly.  If someone were to lend me a thinkpad 
> or look at this it would be easy to fix.

Err, which place?  The emulated device is always BIOS drive 0x00, aka the
first floppy drive when you are emulating a floppy.

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